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(The Fourth Industrial Revolution) Everything was automatic, so efficient that people were forced by an excess of spare time and the resulting boredom to interact with one another. This should have been the best possible outcome, but it seemed to them a most torturous situation. The were terminally advanced, inexorably detached. They went on about [...]
(and other news) The Diminishing Return paperback is now on sale for the promotional price of $10.95 on Amazon for the rest of January. Just in case you spent too much money over the holidays like I did, but you still want to check out my book. For those of you who prefer to read [...]
When a decision made by leadership affects certain people negatively, the hope is that the decision has been made with the consequences of that decision in mind and that those unfortunate effects have been thoughtfully overruled by the needs of the greater good. Without being allowed any confidence in that hope, in the faith that [...]
At our absolute worst, we consistently allow our need for personal satisfaction and comfort to precede those same needs in others, from the nameless and faceless, to those with whom we are personally invested. At our best, we do the same, just a little less often, and, in some cases, we feel the regret for our [...]
(La Liberte an mangeant le peuple) I wonder if these are the last desperate gasps of the old regime or if the revolution is so poorly conceived that nostalgia will pave the way to something much worse. Only the erosion of time will reveal how the highly subjective eye of history will dictate it. How are [...]
(Death of the Middle) At the same time, the most terrifying and the most useful thought a person can have: “What if they’re right, and I’m wrong?” We see other people as beyond human form. They are the savior or the Antichrist, or the Devil or as praise worthy as ancient idols, they are the [...]
We, in large part, do not understand. We believe we can choose to not be part of the panorama as if we can seclude ourselves from the grand scope of humanity because we feel we are special, better, above the rest of it. At some point, at some point soon, our reluctance to consider ourselves [...]
